I am a physicist and my reaserch activity incIudes subjects that are at the interface between statistical physics, cosmology, gravitational dynamics and systems with long-range correlations. I have published about 70 papers in international journals and about 40 contributions to the proceedings of international conferences. I am co-author of the book entiteled Statistical Physics for Cosmic Structures (Springer Verlag 2005). I am also an editor of the book `Dynamics and Thermodynamics of systems with long range interactions: theory and experiments'' (AIP, 2008)

Currently I am a researcher at the Institute for Complex Systems of the Italian Council for Scientific Research (CNR, Rome, Italy). I am an associated scientist at the Statistical Mechanics and Complexity Center in Rome. I am also visiting professor at the Physics Department of the Catholic University of Brescia, where I teach the course of Astrophysics.